Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Arizona wolf pups thrive in New Mexico pack

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

PHOENIX
(AP) — Wildlife managers say two Mexican gray wolf pups from an Arizona
pack are thriving with their new family in New Mexico.

Biologists
in May transplanted a pair of 2-week old pups born in a large litter to
another pack of wolves with a smaller litter and more
rearing experience.

Wildlife
managers have been troubled by the survival rates of wild-born pups.
The goal with cross-fostering is to improve the genetic health of the
endangered predators as they are reintroduced to the American Southwest.

The
technique has worked with red wolves on the East Coast. This marks the
first time it has been tried with Mexican gray wolves.

The film offers an abbreviated history of the relationship between wolves and people—told from the wolf’s perspective—from a time when they coexisted to an era in which people began to fear and exterminate the wolves.

The return of wolves to the northern Rocky Mountains has been called one of America’s greatest conservation stories. But wolves are facing new attacks by members of Congress who are gunning to remove Endangered Species Act protections before the species has recovered.

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Inescapably, the realization was being borne in upon my preconditioned mind that the centuries-old and universally accepted human concept of wolf character was a palpable lie... From this hour onward, I would go open-minded into the lupine world and learn to see and know the wolves, not for what they were supposed to be, but for what they actually were.

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf

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“If you look into the eyes of a wild wolf, there is something there more powerful than many humans can accept.” – Suzanne Stone